The Night Traveler

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...the Ohio of Oliver’s youth. Her childhood plays a more central role in
The River Styx, Ohio, and Other Poems (1972), in which she attempted to re-create the past through memory and myth.
The Night Traveler (1978) explores the themes of birth, decay, and death through the conceit of a journey into the underworld of classical mythology. In these poems Oliver’s fluent imagery weaves...